Zombietime: Obama reviews Ayers’s book, and The Left’s Big Blunder

“A searing and timely account of the juvenile court system, and the courageous individuals who rescue hope from despair.”

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The Obama campaign would have you believe Ayers is just a guy “who lives down the street”,

[Obama spokesman] Mr. LaBolt said the men first met in 1995 through the education project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and have encountered each other occasionally in public life or in the neighborhood.

when in fact,

Bernardine Dorn worked in the same law office as Michelle Obama in 1987

There are letters going back to 1994 demonstrating that Ayers had a deciding voice on who was on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Steve Diamond, who has that evidence, says

I was interviewed at length by the New York Times for this story – in fact, this was the third Times reporter to interview me about the Ayers/Obama relationship – and I provided the Times with the letters I discuss here. They are not mentioned in the story at all.

And the so-called “Fact Check” at the Obama website does not disclose that Obama and Ayers worked together on a failed education reform project from 1995 to 2001, and
had probably first teamed up on education reform in 1987.

By the time Obama met Bill Ayers, it’s clear Ayers was regarded as a respectable citizen, even by conservatives.

In 1995, Bill Ayers (with two others) won the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and was awarded $49.5 million dollars by the conservative Annenberg Foundation. The Foundation had been set up by Walter Hubert Annenberg – who had been appointed as the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom by President Nixon and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Reagan. The check was presented at a ceremony in Chicago by Wallis Annenberg, daughter of Ambassador Annenberg and his wife Leonore and current VP of the Annenberg Foundation. Leonore Annenberg was appointed Chief of Protocol of the United States by President Reagan and is the current president of the Annenberg Foundation.

In 1997, the City of Chicago awarded Ayers its Citizen of the Year Award for his work on the Annenberg Challenge Project.

Obama served on the founding Board of Directors of the Chicago Arrenberg Challenge project, set up 1995. The project dealt with the reform of public schooling, as required by the Annenberg Foundation.

If Obama was “palling around” with the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, so were the directors of the Annenberg Foundation and the following other people who, like Obama, served on the same CAC board with Ayers:

Patricia Albjerg Graham, currently on the Board of Directors of Apache Corporation – the Texas oil and gas corporation – and professor of education history at Harvard University.

Stanley O Ikenberry, former President of the University of illinois.

Arnold R Weber, former President of Northwestern University and the University of Colorado. Weber has served on the boards of many corporations including Tribune Co., Burlington Northern Santa Fe Inc., PepsiCo Inc., John Deere & Company, Aon Corp. and Inland Steel.

Ray Romero, vice-president and general counsel of Ameritech.

Susan Crown, daughter of Lester Crown, “perennial member of the Forbes 400 list”.

Scott C. Smith, president, CEO and publisher of the Chicago Tribune; former chairman of the South Florida Annenberg Challenge.

The current president, chairman and sole director of the Annenberg Foundation is Ambassador Annenberg’s widow, Leonore Annenberg. Leonore Annenberg was made Chief of Protocol of the United States by President Reagan. She is a McCain supporter.